Word: brides
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...rules today about who is responsible for footing the bill, but usually the family of the felon pays for the getaway limo before the wedding, the cancellation announcements, the defense lawyer, the court rehearsal dinner and the bail bond. The groom pays for his boutonniere as well as the bride's electronic monitoring bracelet...
...What is the proper attire for a bride...
...this well-known tale, twelve princesses escape their castle every night to a fantasyland where they dance until dawn with beloved princes. Their father, the king, offers any of the princesses as a bride to whomever discovers the destination of their nighttime escapades. Only when a ragged war-veteran refuses the soporific wine the princesses serve their guests, and follows them—shielded by the aforementioned invisibility cloak—does he learn their secret and marry the youngest...
...British. Wormwood, the third narrator, writing years after Johnny's death, reveals all?about the murder of a British mine operator on the trip, about Kunichika's sinister connections to the Japanese troops then poised to invade the Malay peninsula, and about Johnny's growing anguish over his reluctant bride. In Wormwood's literate and lively account, Johnny is a likable, slightly pathetic figure battered by the forces of British colonialism, Japanese militarism and, finally, his own greed...
...disappointment that he rewrites history as a Wagnerian drama to give meaning to his empty life. "How very much I too would like to have a family, children, children! Oh, God, you know how much I love children . . . But I have to deny myself this happiness. I have another bride--Germany! I am married: to the German Volk. " This high-minded sentimentality contrasts grotesquely with private reality. The extent of Hitler's love affair with his niece Geli Raubal may never be clear, but there is enough evidence to indicate that his half sister's 23-year-old daughter...